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Right. And the fines will continue, lol.

That's true, but they got fined for their violations which they want to continue, and future fines are likely.

I don't really care about the hypocrisy. I care about the damage that they do to others and to their children and to their families.

That being said, it is valuable to point out hypocrisy whenever it happens so that people have the information they need to potentially adjust their s***** political views and so that younger people can develop their own political views based on accurate information and analysis.

Even when they had the slogan, it was, don't be evil. That's a very low bar, because it's relative to other tech companies. As long as they were less evil than Microsoft, they could pat themselves on the back.

If the goal were actually not to do evil, they would have to look at each individual action and consider whether it's ethical. That's something they have never done and of course they're not going to start doing it in the future.

Not really though. He's lying about leaving, of course.

We all know Musk is lying. He doesn't plan on leaving. There's too much power.

What's kind of amazing is that so many articles don't point this out in the title or the first sentence. I really wonder why. When you know the person is a liar and they are in a situation like this, with a strong motive to lie, why in heck would you not make that the subject line?

Or, if you want to be polite about it, you could write a headline that says something like "Musk supposedly considering retiring, but actions speak louder than words".

Exactly. There's no way he would leave, there's too much power.

Of course there was some good legislation along the way. Nobody is denying that. But the crisis we face now is there because the Democrats decided to ignore the danger. It really is that simple...

You can start with Citizens United. You can talk about the Dems after 9/11, the illegal drone strikes, Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, how the Dems celebrated the human rights violations then, which leads us to El Salvador today. You can talk about stacking the courts, which was a plan publicly announced in the 90s, that the Dems never seriously tried to stop, leading to the current Supreme Court...

If you want to say, "Well, the Dems are less evil," then great, many people partly agree. But that's not good enough. They fucked us all over by not stopping the Republicans from doing really horrible shit, even though we all knew what was coming. Maybe in a few years we can write on Biden's tombstone "Not quite as evil as Trump." Would that make anyone happy? Is that something to be proud of?

No, my friend, you're wrong. The Washington Democrats do make it worse. They (most of them) are willing participants in making life worse for the average American, and they know it, and they don't care.

Oh no, I entirely disagree. The majority of Washington Democrats are right in the corporate center. They aren't working to make life better for the average person. If they were, why didn't they seriously push for universal healthcare, raising the minimum wage, or regulating big banks and other monopolies?

(I know, you're going to say the Republicans stopped them, but everyone who actually remembers when the Democrats had the majority knows better than that. But even if we're mistaken, like our memories are entirely false, that would only show that the Democrats have the power to stop Trump right now, which they're failing to do... Either excuse only goes to prove the aforementioned claim.)

I would still take blocking progress to the left over concentration camps every time

Um, blocking progress to the left was a major step in creating the concentration camps. That's how it works, my friend. We've been saying this for several decades. Maybe one of these days the message will get through... Not today, though.

To be fair, the average worker in those red states was not going to see any money as a result of the projects. It's easy to say that they voted against their own best interests, but unless they work in construction or some relevant field, this only has indirect implications on them.